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TIL about Moon Trees. 500 Trees that are planted around the United States from seeds that travelled to the Moon on the Apollo 14 Mission.

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Eoyp TIL that inside a 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman, a large leather basket and wooden bowl was found filled with 789g of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions.
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